Santosh Rajkumar

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It was around the time Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduced Dr. John H Watson to Sherlock Holmes when the gods smiled down on the vision of a sturdy frame for the bicycle that would mature into a rather famous motorcycle. In the early 1880s, George Townsend Jr. had evolved the “Townsend Cyclists Saddles and Springs” company from a producer of a local inventor’s single coil saddle to a manufacturer of complete bicycles remembered for their robust scaffolding. Around ten years later, after bagging a valuable contract to produce precision rifle parts for an arms factory in Enfield, Middlesex, the newly-named-and-controlled Eadie Manufacturing Company Limited commemorated the occasion with the release of the “Enfield” bicycle. The link to ‘royalty’ began when the specialised company producing these bicycles became “Royal Enfield Manufacturing Co. Ltd.”

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Santosh Rajkumar is a senior automotive researcher for a private consultancy based in Goa, India. His love for language and internal combustion fuelled a career in motoring journalism that began with Autocar India magazine in 2008. Santosh currently writes a column for the print and web editions of the Deccan Chronicle and Asian Age dailies. He is equally passionate about music, and can often be found crooning inappropriately at a certain watering hole in Panjim, North Goa. santoshrajkumar@gmail.com

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